TNA Wrestling’s critically acclaimed women’s division continues to grow and adapt with Knockouts like Gail Kim, Awesome Kong, ODB – names that without TNA, wouldn’t be able to showcase their talents on a national level due to WWE’s disinterest in promoting true women’s wrestling. That said, we can’t help but feel there are a few … Read more
WWE’s Next Top Model is officially underway! It’s time to vote for your favourite Diva to stop them from facing the chop! Which Diva has the most top model potential? Vote now! The Diva with the least votes will be eliminated this weekend! [poll=11]
Highlight below for explosive, gargantuan spoilers from tonight’s RAW that will have you going “OMFG!”
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Melina & Jillian def. Maria & AshleyRAW
Mickie def. Beth Phoenix to become the new Women’s Champion! They do “big fight” introductions. Afterwards, Mickie cries with joy and Ashley and Maria come to congratulate her.
Our thoughts after the cut:
Hurrah! The Women’s Championship will be contested tonight on RAW, between Beth Phoenix and Mickie James. The match will take place before a sold out crowd in my hometown of London, England. Now, I hate to embrace a stereotype but I think British modesty has rubbed off on WWE as they finally begin to stop … Read more
Kelly, Layla, Melina and Mickie appeared on Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp last night and as head instructor said, it was more like booty camp! Check out the Divas, all of whom looked phenomenal I might add, leading a workout (courtesy of Melina-Perez.org): I’m loving the synergy, all the girls in their “WWE Divas” tees, … Read more
Be sure to check for TNA’s LockDown pay per view tonight, which will feature not one, not two, but three Knockout matches! Mixed Tag Team Match Booker T & Sharmell vs Robert Roode & Payton Banks Women’s Tag Team Match Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs Gail Kim & ODB Queen of the Cage Angelina … Read more
Natalya Neidhart, SmackDown!’s newest Diva on the block spoke to WWE.com this weekend and the third generation Diva had some fighting words that should have some of WWE’s less experienced Divas quaking in their boots: “In The Dungeon, you learn to fight for your life and defend yourself. If you can last in The Dungeon, … Read more
Previously on WWE’s Next Top Model… In the casting call, you voted between a variety of 20 WWE Divas, 10 of whom would make it through to the competition. And now we can reveal the 10 Divas you have chosen to compete for the chance to become WWE’s Next Top Model. 103 votes were cast, … Read more
Melina, Mickie, Kelly, & Layla are set to appear on this Sunday’s episode of Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp. For those unfamiliar with the show, it’s basically a fat camp for has-been or never-was celebrities. WWE.com posted an article and a preview video for the show, which is going to air tomorrow at 11 am. … Read more
A British female wrestler, who once aspired to be a WWE Diva is now a Gladiator! Following the success of American Gladiators, UK’s Sky One commissioned the return of the British version of the show. 24 year old Jemma Palmer, whose profile on the show’s official websites cites that she was once invited to be … Read more
One scoop or two? Actually, you better make it two – in fact, you could name them Deuce and Domino. SmackDown! continues it’s creative lead over RAW this week, the blue brand has received much praise from Diva Dirt for it’s story-telling and action in the recent Michelle–Natalya–Victoria feud but the show’s writers to continue … Read more
This week’s Diva action from SmackDown! has found it’s way online and is a pretty good watch, if you ask me! Check out the official introduction of Nattie Neidhart – now known as Natalya Neidhart – as well as a match between Michelle McCool and Victoria.SmackDown! is officially on the rise people! Both Michelle and … Read more
Torrie Wilson has updated her MySpace page, giving us a sad and shocking update on her back injury. It looks as though Torrie’s in-ring career may be at an end =( Read below: My health is doing ok as far as back problems. I must say there are days that I wake up and ask … Read more
At ‘Mania and the week leading up to it, emotions ran high and history was made… Do we forget that? Do we take those moments for granted and not realize what we are witnessing and what we are a part of – WWE history? I really hope not.
The Hall of Fame is so incredible and I look forward to it each year. I cry like a baby and I am so overwhelmed with emotions. I am filled with pride and am inspired. When I hear about what the inductees went through in their lives and how they saw the business, I feel for them and it reassures me that they went through the same things that I went through and am going through… And look! We are there celebrating their greatness and thanking them for what they have done. Instantly, I am more motivated than I have ever been before.
I admire each and every one of the Hall of Famers, but I always look forward to the women who are inducted the most. There are so few women in wrestling, so few getting inducted. On that night, you hear stories about their journey and you hear about the person they are and were. I look forward to hearing the women because there is no one better to identify with and to thank for why I am here than those women who made this all possible.
Welcome to another edition of the Playlist, our regularly scheduled music column! This week all eyes are on Mariah Carey as the diva prepares to release her 11th studio album, E=MC2 next week! Check out our review of the album…
In 2005, Mariah (or should we say Mimi?) was emancipated and now, the world’s biggest selling female artist is unleashing another 14 tracks of fun, bliss and emotion on her “lambs.” E=MC2 is the 11th studio album from the one and only Mariah Carey, whose storied career has spanned nearly 15 years. Still, the diva continues to remain relevant in music today – after all her 2005 album The Emancipation of Mimi was the biggest selling album of the year, spawning the #1 smash hit We Belong Together which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 weeks. Mariah described her latest offering as the dessert to the main course that was Mimi… and she couldn’t be more right! Though this offering doesn’t quite match her comeback album, Mariah still has it and puts the other rising female artists in their places with a knockout album.
Already the album has made history, it’s lead single Touch My Body became Mariah’s 18th #1 hit in the United States making her second only to the Beatles in terms of artists with the most #1s (the Beatles have 20). But having listened to this album, I can almost guarantee that Mariah will be able to match, if not surpass, the legendary British band. It’s fair to say that every song on the album has single potential, yet all the songs are an eclectic mix.
It looks like SmackDown! continues to be the “one to watch” having read this week’s spoilers, which can be found below. Highlight to read:
Victoria introduced Natalia Neidhart. They did a video package on her and put over she was Jim Neidhart’s daughter. She cut a promo and did his trademark laugh. Victoria defeated Michelle McCool after Neidhart distracted her.
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Keep your votes coming for the casting call of WWE’s Next Top Model here at Diva Dirt. The poll will close on Friday and we will reveal which ten Divas have made it through to the competition! From there, each week you will vote out one Diva until we determine which Diva has the most … Read more
WWE.com has posted a new Candice photoshoot – entitled “April Showers” – that just oozes class and subtleness. I mean, the only way these photos could be more dashing is if Candice was wearing a top hat and smoking from an old-fashioned corncob pipe. Clearly, WWE’s photo direction is on another level of classy, but … Read more
It’s no secret that I’m partial to some Layla, the Diva continues to grow and shine in the debilitating women’s division that is WWE’s. I guess top brass doesn’t pay attention to ECW (actually, come to think of it – does anyone?) otherwise they’d probably fire the show’s head writer for God forbid, allowing Layla … Read more
TNA’s Gail Kim talked pretty in-depth with the Baltimore Sun, touching on many different topics. It’s a very insightful piece, some highlights below: On her WWE release: Yeah, it really did. I remember us talking about a brand new story line at that time that was with me, Trish [Stratus] and Lita, and I actually … Read more
The almighty Trish Stratus paid a compliment to TNA’s ever-growing women’s division when she appeared on wrestling radio show, Live Audio Wrestling. The seven time Women’s Champion loves the Knockout division – branding it “amazing” and that she loves the fact all the girls really do work. Trish also talks of returning to Monday Night … Read more
Since last June, SmackDown! has seen a surge in Diva activity, largely due to the landing of Torrie Wilson and Victoria during the WWE Draft. Since, Friday nights have put on women’s wrestling on a regular basis – with some matches on par or even exceeding what we saw on RAW that week. Torrie and … Read more
ECW’s Layla is featured in the latest episode of Miz & Morrison’s Dirt Sheet at WWE.com, the Diva can be heard talking “over the phone” giving the WWE Tag Team Champions hell after they voted that Kelly Kelly better than her at the 2008 Hall of Fame ceremony. Just goes to show WWE scripts even … Read more
Diva Dirt is proud to launch a new interactive feature here at the site, WWE’s Next Top Model. I’m sure you’ve all seen Top Model, well we thought we’d let you vote for a Diva version! We’re taking all the Divas and asking you which Diva has the most Top Model potential. Each week, you … Read more
“Leatherheads” – starring George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, & John Krasinski
Plot summary – A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America’s nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that’s the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter’s war story. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams.
My take – I saw this movie yesterday, but I’ll spare you from a review. Let me just say that the period aspect of the movie (it’s set in the late 1920s) certainly adds to its appeal to me. I like the vintage styles and the classic look at football that we usually don’t get to see this side of ESPN Classic.
Get this week’s Diva news rounded up… with commentary! This week we discuss BunnyMania aftermath, a new Diva on the block, Victoria’s ride, Melina’s wrath
and more!
• Beth, Melina Prevail
The big news story of the week, Beth Phoenix and Melina defeated Ashley and Maria at the grandest stage of them all – WrestleMania 24. The match saw the involvement of Santino Marella, The King not to mention the Lumberjills (or is that Lumberjacks this year?). After the match, master of ceremonies Snoop Dogg planted Santino with a clothesline – and Maria with a kiss!
Erin: It definitely wasn’t as bad as I thought it’d be. Not great, but not a disaster. The presence of the Lumberjill/jacks/whatever was totally unecessary. All they did was stand there in their tacky outfits and scramble when the occasional Diva was tossed out of the ring. Not a great representation of the Divas, I’d say. A Women’s Title match would’ve been more fitting, but at least Maria didn’t get the undeserving annual title shot.
Melanie: I, for one, was pretty shocked to see Beth and Melina win. I didn’t see it coming but I’m so glad for it! As I wrote in my review of the match, Melina was the standout and really captured the essence of WrestleMania. Kudos to Ashley and Maria (more so) for putting on a real effort in the ring. This match wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.